study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a "bribe tax" and is compared with … another form of institutional inefficiency, which is often believed to be closely linked with corruption: the "time tax … to vary depending on overall institutional quality: in countries where corruption is more prevalent and the legal …

The economics of corruption: an overview / George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- pt. 1. Causes and consequences of … corruption. Corruption around the world: causes, consequences, scope, and cures / Vito Tanzi -- Bureaucratic corruption and the … rate of temptation: do wages in the civil service affect corruption, and by how much? / Caroline Van Rijckeghem and …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … grease" hypothesis by investigating whether corruption may increase productivity by helping reduce the time tax on firms … corruption is more prevalent and the legal framework is weaker, bribery is more harmful for firm-level productivity …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … grease" hypothesis by investigating whether corruption may increase productivity by helping reduce the time tax on firms … corruption is more prevalent and the legal framework is weaker, bribery is more harmful for firm-level productivity. …

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 The Economics of Corruption: An Overview George T …. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- Part I Causes and Consequences of Corruption -- 2 Corruption Around the World: Causes …, Consequences, Scope, and Cures Vito Tanzi -- 3 Bureaucratic Corruption and the Rate of Temptation: Do Wages in the Civil Service …

This volume presents 18 recent IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can … civil service wages affect corruption, the impact of natural resource availability on corruption, how corruption retards the … growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, the impact of corruption on a country’s income distribution and incidence of …

We investigated firm-level perceptions of corruption, based on two enterprise surveys conducted across eight countries … looks at whether managers in the agribusiness sector perceive corruption differently than do managers in other sectors. The … of ten specifications do respondents from agribusiness tend to perceive corruption as occurring less frequently than do …